The night started with my family sitting round the table having dinner while watching the results show for American Idol, not that I really cared because Andrew Garcia has been eliminated, but what made it worse was that the songs being played were...Country! Oh dear God, that was painful. I could hardly sit through the whole show. 'Country' should not even be classified as a music genre, it just doesn't make sense, nor does it sound good. We decided to cut it short and watch the 16th episode of Glee, 'Home', which my sister had downloaded.
I must say, I really did liked this episode. What really struck me were the stories of Kurt and Mercedes.
Let's start with Kurt's story. He is still hung up on Finn, so he concocts a plan to get the two of them together. He does this by putting his single father and Finn's widowed-mother together, in the bizarre hopes of Finn and Kurt moving in the same home together. What I found weird was that Kurt didn't even think that there would be a chance of them two becoming brothers, which would then be impossible for anything to happen between himself and Finn. I guess desperation kicked in at this point. What was interesting with this story was that Kurt's plan has backfired as his dad found more in common with Finn - they both had an interest in sports - and they seemed to be having a genuine 'guy talk'. A destroyed Kurt later reminded his father, 'dad, I'm a guy', making Kurt discover that what he thought he wanted may not turn out as he’d hoped. He craved for acceptance from his father and to be able to build more common ground, but he knew this was not possible, leaving him feeling not a part of a home.
Similarly, Mercedes's character was also craving for acceptance; acceptance within the cheer squad and within the entire student body in general. She was told by Ms. Sylvester that she had to lose 10 pounds in two weeks or she was out. Distraught by this ultimatum, she resorted to extreme dieting just like the other girls in the cheer squad, who would rather drink what seemed close to flavoured water than eat. She followed their lead to the point where she started hallucinating and imagining that the people around her were palatable dishes, resulting in her fainting. It is at this point that Quinn, a former cheerleader, steps in to put a stop to the ridiculous actions of Mercedes in order to lose weight and her premises that if she does, she would fit in. Quinn snaps Mercedes from her desire to fit in, she reminds her that she’s always been 'at home in your body, don’t let Ms. Sylvester take that away from you'. Ngaw...
Normally, I just stay halfway through an episode, but this one was quite compelling. What also kept me watching was that, none of the angles were of Rachel! hahaha! (Y)
Can't wait to see the next episode now :)
Here's to hoping I get to watch Ironman 2 tomorrow!
Till next time...
xx aBz
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